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The 45 students, all juniors, plan to take a look at the mental health care system, the juvenile justice system, the relationship between young people and their environments, and even video games to see how all of these things factor into deaths attributed to firearms.

The students, who are doing this as part of their humanities and biology classes, determined they would need a minimum of $18,000 to purchase the cameras and software to do the project. Now they hope to continue raising funds that will allow them to travel to other parts of the country to share their ideas with other students and gain their perspectives about gun violence in their communities.

To celebrate the accomplishment, the students and their teachers, Matt Simon and Nuvia Ruland, will have a public event Tuesday at the Eastlake Tavern and Bowl from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. where they will be selling “Beyond the Crossfire” T-shirts, wristbands and bumper stickers, all designed by students.

The Kickstarter campaign, which can be found here, runs until December 14, 2013, which is the one-year anniversary of anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn. that took the lives of 20 children and six adults.